I associate agriculture with our current instance of society. There is no sign of this kind of society before 8000 years ago.
I do not think that human beings were ‘designed’ to eat that much plant-based food. Even the Homo Sapiens were eating mostly meat and fat for 70000 years.
Without agriculture, local and readily available edible plants are really rare. Earlier than Homo-sapiens, the Homo-erectus seem to have been eating non-agricultural products for as much as 2 million years.
I do not believe that our biochemistry could have evolved rapidly enough in 8000 years that we can rely on eating plants that much. How is it that ancient Inuits did not need vitamin C supplements to survive winters? They were eating mostly fat.
If we are to get in sync with nature, we should avoid agriculture.
When I think about it, I find agriculture to be very arrogant. It looks like we think we can do better than nature at producing food, but we are really producing more problems and each ‘solution’ comes with its share of new problems.
I do not think that the human being was given ‘Reason’ in order to produce more food by agriculture. ‘Reason’ would certainly be handy when it comes to capturing wildlife or inventing new ways to fish.
I think ‘Reason’ does not need to justify its existence with a purpose like ensuring human existence.
I do not even think that agriculture is the most efficient way to get food. Hunting does not look that efficient either. Trapping or fishing with a net seems to be the most efficient and also the most resilient to nature’s caprices like floods, droughts, storms, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, etc.
On a side note, we do not need a steady supply of food. Even today, the benefits of fasting are discovered all around. That could mean that our biochemistry is accustomed to fasting. Being hungry once in a while is not that bad after all. I have done it multiple times.
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